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Thursday, 5 May 2016

Misery loves company

There’s a bitter worm which dwells deep in the heart of
humanity, a worm which thrives on envy and malcontent and feeds on the bitter
tears of perceived unfairness. A well-fed worm excretes a bile so potent it can
make an ordinary human being feel hatred enough for two ordinary working,
well-adjusted people. A good proportion of the population are immune; a
balanced life of work and play, looking after your own first and minding your
own business denies the worm its succour. But some are so susceptible that once
infected will attempt to spread the disease as widely as they can.

It is not enough to disagree with a point of view, or a
policy. You must join with them and condemn it with every irrational fibre of
your being. You must accept without question every black ‘fact’ no matter how
unlikely it may seem on closer examination. And you must absolutely and viscerally
reject every action by anybody on the vile ‘far-right’ which for convenience is
anybody more inclined to conservatism than, say, Diane Abbott. Left is right and
right is just wrong and there’s an end to it. You are either with them, or against
them and agreeing to disagree is just not an option.

This may go some way to explain the utter incomprehension
of a significant number of those on the left of the social and political divide
that anybody could possibly support Donald Trump. Or Margaret Thatcher. Or
express admiration for the twenty-year crusade of Nigel Farage. Because, in
their wormy heart of hearts, only they can be right it astounds them that
others do not share their certitude and in their opinion must therefore be variously,
insane, depraved, indoctrinated or just plain evil.

It leaves them in some contrary positions – such as denouncing
both the Jews and the Nazis in the same breath and endorsing terrorists, so
long as they are the right sort of terrorists. It allows them to insist on
equality and democracy while supporting wholesale bias against the majority.
And most prominent of all it allows them to fiercely defend free speech, so long
as you say only what they want to hear.

Now don’t get me wrong, there are those on the right who
are dangerously deranged and seem to hate certain groups with a fervour that is
deeply disturbing. But there are only about a dozen of them, they are clearly
recognisable by the swastika tattoos on their foreheads and the knuckle tracks
they leave and they tend to be incapable of forming and holding together any
coherent movement. Although threatening, they are in such a minority we can
effectively ignore the real far right for all meaningful purposes. Except that
those with the leftists disposition seem to imagine, with their knee-jerk
labelling, that we are all like that who don’t subscribe to their membership.

As if to justify and account for their own loathing of ‘the
other’ and because they can’t grasp that most of us simply don’t hate anybody
at all, they tell themselves that we might not scream and spit and hold
demonstrations, but that is only because we plot in secret to exterminate
humanity. The stench of fear and loathing is particularly pungent around
election time as they rally and screech and concoct ever more outlandish
reasons for why people would vote against them.

A nice cup of Labour tea...

They genuinely don’t understand the real concerns of ordinary
people – that real people actually don’t want very much governance at all. That
ordinary people want law and order, a decent education, jobs and opportunities,
but most of all not to be told what to do and what to think. So while the hosts
of the worm want you to vote for hate and division, you just vote whichever way
your head and heart tell you. It will confuse the fuck out of them.

4 comments:

It is ironic that the antifascist protesters are in fact fascists who call themselves anything but that. A bunch of brown shirts without the uniform but they do not have to wear a uniform to be able to recognise them as a thug is a thug whatever they wear.

I must own up to the fact that in one respect I am no better than those on left as I hate them with the same intensity that they hate me and others on the right. The difference being that I do not stoop to the levels they do to promulgate my beliefs.

It is ironic how the stance of the left has dominated the interventionist mentality that has wrecked the Middle East and now doing the same in Eastern Europe. The Crimeans spotted that and smartly signed up to Vlad's way! I wonder if a similar rejection of the failures, over decades, of the luvvie left approach to human affairs lies behind the welcome change that is Trump's success.

I am sure it is exactly that. After several decades of the needs of ordinary working people being ignored in favour of grand social engineering projects and internationalism, it is little wonder that people are leaving the traditional parties and politicos in droves.